Pilade Bertieri (1874-1965)

Pilade Bertieri (1874-1965). Bertieri was born in Turin and exhibited in major cities in Italy, New York and notably Manchester and Liverpool as well as Paris at the Salon from 1907 – 1931. His works are in the Walker art gallery in Liverpool and in the Museu Civico, Turin. Bertieri studied at The Royal Academies of Art at Turin and Bergamo and became a highly successful Italian society portrait painter.  He had a London address in 1908 and exhibited five pictures at the Royal Academy between 1908 and 1918.  Among his sitters were the Duke of Newcastle and the Countess of Bradford.  There is no doubt that Bertieri must have seen and been influenced by the work of John Singer Sargent, Sir John Lavery, Sir James Jebusa Shannon, Charles Wellington Furse and Sir William Orpen.